06/09/2020
"DO I REALLY HAVE TO SHOW YOU MY PHOTOS, I LOOK AWFUL"
If there is one thing I hear from new clients its the above comment.
These are my starting photos for a programme im currently doing (3 weeks in)
Was I happy with them? No
Did I think I looked like that when I looked in the mirror? No
Does this bother me? NO
Let's get this straight.. the whole point in progress photos is to see the progress you make for starting some kind of fitness journey (whatever that may be). This means whatever you look like or feel you look like in these photos is pretty much irrelevant because you are actively changing it.
The start of a fitness journey should be the end of were you feel any kind of negative way about yourself. You dont get to criticise yourself if you are doing everything in your power to change that thing.
Me sitting and criticising the way my legs and bum look in these photos, when the programme im doing is to change them seems ridiculous to me.
Instead, you should see these photos and this point as a positive. This is the point were I change this, this is where I begin to gain confidence, this is what I can look back on in X amount of weeks / months and realise my strength gains, both physically and mentally.
Please celebrate your progress photos, even right at the very start. These are the most detrimental photos, the ones that will get you to fully appreciate where you end up π